Pentecost Sunday || The Miracle of Hearing
Sunday, June 8, 2025 || 11:00am
Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol || Pastor
To say that the disciples have experienced a wide range of emotions would be an understatement. They have been filled with fear, overcome with joy, paralyzed by grief, and shocked by the resurrection. They then continue on with their lives before returning to Jerusalem for Pentecost which was a Jewish celebration of the harvest. It is here that God shocks them again—not with resurrection—but with the promised Holy Spirit that descends like a rushing wind and tongues of fire, empowering them to speak in other languages. But the deeper miracle of Pentecost is not the speaking—but the hearing—as people from every nation under heaven heard the message “in their own native language.” God uses the sense of hearing to break down barriers and open hearts. Join us this morning as we reflect not only on the wind and fire, but on the miracle of hearing—and consider how we, too, might dare to be open to the Spirit’s fresh, bold, and boundary-breaking work within, among, and around us.